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A40275 A testimony for all the masters of ships and seamen to read over Reprinted the second time, with an addition. By George Fox. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1677 (1677) Wing F1927A; ESTC R220251 19,794 24

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in Weariness and Painfulness in Watching often in Hunger and in Thirst in Fastings often in Cold and Nakedness c. as you may see in 2 Cor. 11.24 25 26 27. And this you see was the Condition of Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ that made Tents besides all his Imprisonments Now did not this Apostle preach freely who saith He laboured with his Hands that he might be an Example to others that follow him so you may see that he did not sit down in a great Benefice And did not he give forth all his Epistles freely And did not he give forth his Epistle to the Romans and his two Epistles to the Corinthians and his Epistle to the Galatians and his Epistle to the Ephesians and his Epistle to the Philipians and his Epistle to the Colossians and his two Epistles to the Thessalonians freely And saith I charge you by the Lord that this Epistle be read unto all the Holy Brethren as in 1 Thes 5.27 And Paul's two Epistles to Timothy and one Epistle to Titus and his Epistle to Philemon and his Epistle to the Hebrews and how that God in these last Days hath spoken to us the true Church by his Son whom he hath appointed Heir of all things by whom also he made the World Now consider all People did not all the Holy Prophets and all the Holy Men of God give forth all their Books freely from Adam to Christ to be read believed practised and fulfilled And did not all the Holy Apostles and all the Holy Evangelists give forth all their Evangelists Epistles and Revelations freely and to be read beli●ved and practised Or did they give them forth freely that men after the● should make a Trade of them and to have so much a Year for preaching of them which they prophesied and preached freely and gave forth freely And the Apostle doth not say Preach his Epistles but Read them as in Col. 4.16 1 Thes 5.27 and likewise the Lord said Thou shalt read my Law to all Israel in their Hearing Deut. 31. And Isaiah saith Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord and read c. And Jeremiah sent Baruch to read his Book or Roll Jer. 36.4 5 6. c. So both the Old and New Testament were given forth to be read and believed and to be obeyed and fulfilled as you may see in Ezra 4.18 Nehem. 8.3 Jer. 29.19 Ephes 3.4 5. Mat. 1.22 Luke 4.16 Mark 13.21 14.49 Joh. 19.24 28 16. Acts 1.16 Now is there more Money gotten by any one thing then by preaching of the Scriptures and some old Authors with them Let it be cast up in all Nations in Christendom and see how much their Revenues come to yearly of such that do not obey Christ's Doctrine who saith Freely ye have received freely give nor fellow the Apostle Paul's Example To keep the Gospel without Charge And the Apostle saith 1 Tim. 1.19 where the exhorts Timothy To hold fast his Faith and a Good Conscience which some having put away concerning Faith they have made Shipwrack Now consider this ye Seamen and others when your Ships are wrackt what Condition you are in you are fallen to pieces you are broken and many times in the Sea so that ye have not Victory And when you have made Shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience then where are you but split in the Sea of the World and the Wayes of the World go over your Heads that you have no Victory And therefore censider what Condition all the World is in that say they have not Victory on this side the Grave and they that must have a Purgatory when they are dead Have they not made Shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience and are split in the World the Sea who see no Faith nor Victory out of it and over it on this side the Grave when as the Apostle saith The Holy and precious Divine Faith which Jesus Christ is the Author and Finisher of it purifies their Hearts and by it they are justified and in it they please God which Faith is their Victory by which they have access to God over the World and out of its Sea And in Jer. 16.16 there ye may see when the jews transgrest the Law of God and became worse then their Fore Fathers how they were then as in a Sea For Behold I will send for many Fishers saith the Lord and they shall fish them and I will send for many Hunters and they shall hunt them from every Mountain and from every Hill and out of the Holes of the Rocks So here you may see men are called fish and men are called Fishers and then consider where is the fish and where is the Sea Is not the Sea the World which lies in Transgression and Rebellion against the Spirit of God And such as make Ship-wrack of Faith and a good Conscience are they not in it Jer. 16 17. chapters But saith the Prophet Thou art to wit the Lord of Purer Eyes then to behold Evil that canst not look on Iniquity Wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously and holdest thy Tongue when the Wicked devoureth the Man that is more Righteous then he and makest Men as Fishes of the Sea and as the creeping things that have no Rule over them They take up all of them with the Angle they catch them in their Nets and gather them in their Drags therefore they rejoyce and are glad therefore they sacrifice unto their Net and burn Incense unto their Drag and because by them their Portion is fat and their Meat plenteous c. Here is the wicked mens fishing and the wicked mens Sacrifice which is not to be followed And in Jonah 2. there you may see Jonah's Prayer and the stedfastness of his Faith which he had and prayed to the Lord God out of the Fishe's Belly Jonah 2. thoughout And you may see the Cause of Jonah's casting into the Sea how that it was for his Disobedience for when the Lord commanded him to go to Nineveh to preach Repentance to it he fled away and went to Joppa and found a Ship and so paid the Fare thereof and went down into it to go from thence to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord But the Lord sent out a great Wind in the Sea and there was a might Tempest in the Sea so that the Ship was like to be broken and then the Mariners were afraid and cast Lots and the Lot fell upon Jonah to be cast into the Sea and when they had cast him into the Sea it ceased from raging And now all ye Mariners and Seamen and Fisher-men and others whose Faith stands not in God and Christ Jesus the Author of it when ye have Storms and great Winds and Tempests in the Sea then do not thou say That some Witch or ill-tongued People have bewitched your Ship and raised that Wind or some ill tongued Body hath raised this Storm and Tempest And let New-England Professors